Originally Posted by Double Back
Using GA flying as a surrogate not completely replaces manually flying an airliner. And it is not w/o danger, each year airline pilots loose their life in GA planes. In about 40 years of commercial flying I lost at least five friends/colleagues in GA related accidents, "only" one to an airline accident.
(SLF here)
However, from what I've read, both Sully and the Gimli Glider Pilot had been flying gliders in their spare time and put that training to good use.
I don't know about other incidents/accidents/crashes where this might have played a role, but I think I see a pattern - a pilot of a GA plane is required to do ANC because there are not that many SOPs...
What do you think?